Paleontology
Paleontology

A 34-million-year-old flower
Revised description of fossilized flower preserved in amber indicates the climate in northern Europe was milder in the distant past
By Redação
Paleontology

A boreal forest from the past
Polar desert in Greenland may have been a boreal forest two million years ago
By Redação
Paleontology

The banded spider of Taubaté
Fossil from Taubaté used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs
By Redação
Archaeology

A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
By Redação
PALEONTOLOGY

Myanmar fossils in foreign hands
Publication figures indicate that paleontologists took advantage of armed conflicts in Myanmar to gain access to fossils preserved in amber
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History

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks
Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.
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Paleontology

The first bipedal hominids
Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago
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PALEONTOLOGY

Fred the wandering mastodon
Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago
By Redação
Paleontology

São Paulo was once covered by forest
São Paulo Metropolitan Area was once covered by vast forest of araucaria trees between 180,000 and 135,000 years ago
By Redação
Paleontology

The Cause of Big John’s Headache
Hole in dinosaur skull resulted from an attack before it died 66 million years ago
By Redação
PALEONTOLOGY

A precursor to dinosaurs
An 11-centimeter right femur is all that remains of the oldest dinosaur precursor ever found in South America
By Redação
Paleontology

The largest “sea dragon” fossil in the UK
Paleontologists and conservationists announced that they had identified the UK's largest ichthyosaur fossil
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Paleoecology

Caribbean incursions
Studies back up the hypothesis that the Caribbean Sea flooded parts of the western Amazon between 23 and 10 million years ago
By Tiago Jokura
PALEONTOLOGY

Armed and Armored
A new species of armored dinosaur with a very peculiar tail has been described by Chilean paleontologists
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Zoology

Protozoan fossil in Brazilian amber
Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have described a new extinct species of protozoan: Palaeohypothrix bahiensis
By Redação
Paleontology

The Battle of the Fossils
The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany announced that it has no plans to return the original fossil of Ubirajara jubatus to Brazil
By Redação
Video

The problem of fossil traficking
Paleontologists speak with Federal Prosecutors and the Federal Police to bring a stop to the trafficking of fossil assets in Brazil
By Redação
Paleontology

Brazilian paleontologists identify new carnivorous dinosaur
A group of Brazilian researchers has identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur, a dromeosaurid named Ypupiara lopai
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Paleontology

The near extinction of sharks
Ocean sediment fossil records suggest that today's sharks are descended from the few survivors of a mass extinction that wiped out nearly all the shark species that lived in the early Miocene Epoch
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paleontology

The pterosaur of the trees
A 160-million-year-old fossil discovered in Liaoning, northeast China, belongs to a new species of pterosaur, which has been generating curiosity
By Redação
Paleontology

The oldest and largest blind snake
Paleontologists from the University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto campus, have identified the world’s largest and oldest blind snake
By Redação